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andy herbert has created an xbmc widget that enables os-x users to drag and drop links onto the widget, which then gets played back on an internet connected xbox running xbmc. check it out here thanks andy! xbmc forums discussion

2006 sourceforge.net community choice awards we won! thanks to you – our users, xbmc won best multimedia and also best game(!) category. prize: ‘bragging rights’ and the logo on our projectpage . and while i have your attention, we are in need of assistance to get our...

ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. we are happy to announce that we have once again put the official xbmc cvs into a feature freeze and thus our third official public bug-bash has begun. this is the first step in the process of getting ready for another ‘stable’...

2005-05-15 milkdrop was added to xbmc cvs. nullsoft kindly opensourced this awesome visualization 2005-05-04, and then it was just a matter of time until one of our devs ported it here’s a screenshot captured using our built-in screenshot function, showing one of the...

the contest is now over. we would like to thank all who contributed in one way or another. the standard was very high, and we are really impressed with what you guys came up with. the 5 winners were easy to choose since 5 people entered the contest. each of the winners...

from arddrive of xform.xbox-scene.com : “hi everyone, arddrive here at xform. i am please to announce that xform [an xbmc skinning tool] is now open source and i am looking for .net c# programmers to help work on xform to work on custom objects and fun stuff like that...

in an interview yesterday with cnet news.com bill gates outlined multimedia playback as one of microsoft’s primary goals with xbox 2; quote: “this whole story of the windows media connect and how all the formats and rights management and that simple media center menu...

apologies for the somewhat delayed news post, by now you’ve probably already heard that we’ve added a major update to our cvs. support for the free multiplayer online gaming service xlink kai has been massively improved. amongst many new features, it has a voice chat...

xbmc 1.1.0 final point release source code has now been set in our cvs! once again we felt that we had been holding off doing any official release candidates for so long that we now consider the current xbmc cvs to be as stable as a point release should and could be,...